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Quality Management: Concepts and Approaches for Software Projects

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Organizational, Business, and Technological Aspects of the Knowledge Society (WSKS 2010)

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In a world of growing competitiveness, ”quality” is a main subject. On recent years, there has been a trend towards the improvement of software projects’ quality. This means improving not only the final software products, but especially the quality of leadership and of project management. It is now recognized that the quality of software products and services can be improved if quality management is accomplished according to the unique characteristics and complexity of each project. In this paper we present the main concepts of quality management, as also some approaches of software quality assurance.

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Gonçalves, D., Varajão, J., Martinho, R., Cruz, J.B. (2010). Quality Management: Concepts and Approaches for Software Projects. In: Lytras, M.D., Ordonez de Pablos, P., Ziderman, A., Roulstone, A., Maurer, H., Imber, J.B. (eds) Organizational, Business, and Technological Aspects of the Knowledge Society. WSKS 2010. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 112. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-16324-1_23

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